The burning sensation began to subside rapidly, and at the same time a special warm feeling began to spread throughout my body, which was extremely comfortable, as if someone was massaging my muscles and bones. It was also like the feeling of being moisturized all over the body after drinking a tonic soup, but my bones, cells, and body tissues were itchy, and it felt like many ants were crawling and scratching all over my body, a bit like the scab feeling during the wound healing period.

Not long after, the heat faded away and my body returned to its usual familiar feeling. I opened my eyes and found that except for the severe burns on my skin which were all burnt, the rest of my body had basically recovered. I guess this time it was because the ghost fire invaded my body and wanted to burn my internal organs, and it was embedded too deeply, so I had to release the gesture and let the Golden Que Sword absorb it all.

This extremely Yin ghost fire was originally a sacrificial fire used for refining corpses. I don't know how many life energies it had swallowed from the living. The energy contained in it was also extremely large, and it was sucked away by the Golden Que Sword. It was then transformed and given to me, allowing me to recover my muscles and bones and survive.

After having a close call with death, I was really scared, but I couldn't be too happy about the situation. I found myself still in the water and encountered an ice hole. As I was hesitating, I remembered that I still had the Golden Que Sword in my hand, so I poked it carefully with the tip of the sword, and the ice surface cracked. I took the opportunity to pry it open, climbed onto the ice, and rolled over gently to prevent other cracks from happening and me from falling in again.

After rolling to the shore, I went up and saw that in the sacrificial area, Bai Lu had pinched Yunwen so hard that her face turned red and her eyeballs were bulging. I rushed over and pushed Bai Lu away. She hit her head on the ground and fainted temporarily. I quickly helped Yunwen up.

She gasped and wanted to speak, but her delicate throat wouldn't allow it and she kept coughing.

"Don't talk for now, take a rest," I said.

She stretched out her hands tremblingly, tears flowing like beads from a broken string. She stroked my face very carefully and tenderly, her eyes full of affection and fear. There were obvious red fingerprints on her throat, which showed how strong Bai Lu was just now. Both of us were in danger of death.

She said in a hoarse voice: "I thought...I would never see you again."

After she finished speaking, she staggered with tears in her eyes again. I gently wiped away her tears and said, "I am still alive, right? There will be plenty of opportunities to see you in the future. Don't cry... Dragon seekers, two dragons fly together, heaven and earth coexist, it seems to be true."

She nodded and said, "That's right. It's a pity that you still had to suffer like that. How did you survive? Even the king ape couldn't withstand this kind of fire. Was it because the water put out the fire?"

At this point, I suddenly remembered that my skin was burnt black by the fire. I immediately stood up from her side with some discomfort and scratched my neck. I didn’t expect it didn’t hurt, but I didn’t want to make her feel uncomfortable, so I said, “The Golden Sword is a converter, which just helped me convert the will-o’-the-wisp. The will-o’-the-wisp may contain other life energy, which was converted and transferred to me, so I survived.”

"Why are you hiding from me?" Yunwen came closer and asked carefully.

I turned around a little and said, "It's okay, but we can't chat freely right now. We should find a way to resolve the current mess."

I was about to stand up, but at this moment, Yunwen pulled my arm and shook it coquettishly. I coughed and could only turn my head to look at her and said, "Sorry, I look a little weird now, and I don't want to make you uncomfortable."

Unexpectedly, after hearing this, Yunwen grumbled and frowned, saying, "What are you talking about? Even if you turn into ashes, I still think you are the most handsome, attractive, and charming man in the world. How can I feel uncomfortable looking at you? I wish I could only look at you all the time and never look anywhere else."

I was secretly happy, but I still wanted to leave a good impression on Yunwen. I was afraid that the burn would not heal, and I planned to wrap it with cloth after tonight. People always don't want others to remember their ugly side, so I still dodged a little and said, "Thank you for saying that, but let's get down to business first."

After saying that, I was about to get up, but at this time Yunwen suddenly pulled my arm hard. I instinctively moved closer, and she kissed me on the lips. And to prove that she didn't dislike me at all, she hugged me affectionately, so sticky, lingering, and attached, without any dislike or deliberateness. She just wanted to tell me with her actions.

After a passionate kiss, she looked at me tenderly and said, "Do you believe it now?"

I smiled and nodded immediately. Unexpectedly, Yunwen suddenly told me not to move and then asked me to smile again. I did as she said. Then she also laughed. She reached out to my face, grabbed my skin and tried to pull it. Strangely, I had no feeling at all. Seeing this, she pulled even harder until she pulled off a layer of burnt skin and her hands could touch my new skin.

"Shedding skin?" I couldn't believe it.

"That's right, you will shed your skin just like a snake." Yunwen smiled with her hand covering her mouth.

No wonder I didn’t feel a burning pain when I scratched my neck just now. It turned out that this layer of burnt old skin was no longer useful and I had grown new skin. So He Yunwen and I tore off that layer of skin on my body and threw it on the ground. It was really creepy to see. This is a real human skin mask.

This gave me confidence, but when I looked at my brand new skin, without the calluses of the past, it was fresh and tender, like that of a newborn baby. I felt a little uncomfortable. I felt like a retired special forces soldier, not like a young idol.

After finishing all these, it's time for Yunwen and I to get down to business. During this time, the ghost fire in the Yinxi Pot had been transformed by my unintentional self-sacrifice, and it was of no use in a moment. The crazy Bai Lu had fainted, and those wooden men were still kneeling, waiting for something. After tossing and turning for most of the night, it was time to put an end to it.

As long as the Yinshi Pot is closed, everything will be over. Those wooden men, whose leader Wang Gang is dead, are leaderless. They also fell for Yunwen's trick just now and are relatively principled. They will no longer be hostile. The maggots in Bai Lu's body will lose their subjective consciousness when the host is completely dead and will no longer move around in the body. They will then be quickly digested or excreted from the body. Then, we can save the Nine-tailed White Fox and let it continue to carry the Yinshi Pot, and everything will return to dust.

So I walked over and planned to close the Yin Xie pot, but then I realized something was wrong. Wang Gang's heart was shot through by Yunwen, and he would not survive for more than five minutes. But from the will-o'-the-wisp incident to when I woke up, it was more serious than that. The host was dead, so why was Bai Lu still being controlled by the corpse maggots and going crazy? This was different from the situation after the red-eyed monster died.

Could it be that the maggots in Bai Lu's body were not Wang Gang's?

At this moment, just when I was about to touch the Yinxi Pot, I heard a leaking sound, like flowing water, but different. The strange thing was that the Yinxi Pot had deviated from its position. It was under my palm just now, but now it was about ten centimeters away from my palm, and it was hanging.

"Why does it feel like Aladdin's magic lamp? It can fly by itself?" I wondered.

But at this time, the diarrhea sound became louder and louder, and I realized that the Yinxi Pot was hanging because of that sound. I used up a little energy and let the Jinque Sword open its light energy. The light shone on the ground, and I saw the real situation. I immediately felt nauseous!

What's more, it's extremely shocking. Who could have imagined that such an operation would happen?

I saw countless black-shelled maggots on the ground quickly gathering from all directions, including the one in Bai Lu's body. In addition, the wooden men were running towards me from all other directions. They quickly gathered, gathered, and gathered!

I also realized why those wooden men were kneeling there motionless.

At this time, countless maggots gathered into a shape. Until it was fully formed, Yunwen and I could see it clearly and immediately gasped!

Damn, isn’t this the bronze statue in the square across the river?

A humanoid monster with a sheep's head and antelope horns was holding the Yinxi Pot in his hand.